3 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

If you visit a supermarket in the UK in March or April, you will notice a strange thing: Shelf after shelf is filled with large, brightly-colored eggs.

Look a little     1     (close) and you will discover something else. These eggs aren’t real. In fact, they     2     (make) of chocolate. And that can mean only one thing — it’s Easter time again.

Easter is a festival     3     has been celebrated in Britain for thousands of years. These days we mark the occasion (场合) by     4     (give) each other chocolate eggs, or Easter eggs. But what are the roots of this     5     (tradition) event?

For Christian people Easter is a religious festival. According     6     the Bible, Jesus Christ was killed by the Romans     7     came back to life three days later. That is     8     Easter is seen as a time of rebirth.

However, some people suggest that Easter has its origins in pre-Christian times. They say that the very earliest societies celebrated the end of winter and the beginning of spring — the time     9     life returns to the land.

Whatever its origins, Easter is big business. The UK’s biggest retailer (零售商) of Easter eggs sold more than 20 million units last year and some Easter eggs     10     cost more than £20!

4 . 阅读下面短文，在标有序号的空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中单词的正确形式。

There is a gigantic study that’s been done in 38 cultures.     1    turns out that in every culture, both males and females desire their potential mates to be bright. But we don’t have our IQs     2     (print) on our forehead. How do we know that someone’s     3    (intelligence)? In Western cultures, at least, it’s often by the person’s sense of humor. Because creating and appreciating jokes both require us to make     4     (connect) between many separate pieces of information,     5     (have) a sense of humor shows that we possess a wide knowledge and     6     we know how to think about things in novel and creative ways.

Take a cartoon     7     example: a mouse is standing outside his house, having just pulled a gun on a cat, who pretends to give in by raising one paw (爪). “Six rounds. Nine lives. You do the math,” the cat says. In order to appreciate this joke, you need to know that mice are     8     (usual) the victims of cats, many guns have six bullets (子弹), and cats     9     (say) to have nine lives because of their ability to always land on their feet. You also need to be able to do some math     10     (understand) that the cat has the advantage in this scene after all.

5 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

High school years are a large part in    1    (shape) the person you are going to become. A school often    2    (provide)education for you,and it can also be a place     3    you can develop relationships with many different people,join clubs,and participate in a variety of different sports.These years can make you become a high school student    4    (fill)with many different emotions,including happiness, anger,sadness, envy, loneliness,stress,and a numerous amount more.This is also a time when peer(同龄人)pressure is most commonly put upon a vast majority of teens.

Peer pressure is the influence from members of one's peer group.This can include influencing another to drink,smoke,cheat on a test,lie,skip class,and etc.The list is     5    (end).Peer pressure at high school is both harmful    6     effective because it can lead to teen depression,high stress levels,negative behavior    7    (issue),and poor decision making and outcomes.

Despite the fact that peer pressure is most commonly seen as a very negative issue,it can     8    (see)positively in some situations.This can involve pressuring your peers to avoid   drugs,be honest,avoid alcohol,respect others,work hard,exercise,be kind, be responsible,and more.Friends and peer    9    (actual)affect the choices you make.Choosing to have good friends can have a very strong effect    10     you.

6 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Cold Food Festival is a     1       (tradition) Chinese holiday celebrated before Qingming Festival, which usually falls on April 4 or 5.

Legend has     2     that Chong'er, a prince of Jin, experienced many hardships while he moved around the warring states. Once, when the prince suffered from     3     (starve), Jie Zitui, offered him food. Later, when Chong'er became the duke of Jin, he ordered a search for Jie who had gone into hiding in the remote mountains with his mother. The duke wanted Jie to serve     4     one of his ministers. Contrary to     5    many people might assume, Jie, who preferred living a simple life in the Mianshan Mountain to     6     (become) a politician, refused the duke's invitation. Chong'er ordered the mountain to be burned down to force Jie out of hiding.     7     (fortune), Jie did not give in and the fire ended up killing him and his mother. Feeling extremely sorry, Chong'er required that the setting of fire     8     (forbid) on the anniversary of Jie's death. This meant all food was eaten cold. Therefore the festival is thus named.

Mianshan Mountain,     9    the tragedy happened, is now a famous tourist destination in Shanxi province. In many areas of Shanxi, locals still remember this tradition.     10    cold food is not the only choice for people during the celebration, the practices of making typical cold dishes for the event have been preserved.

7 . Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Many Bird Populations Are in Trouble

A new report warns that many bird populations in the United States are in trouble. The report says about 200 kinds of birds are    1    decreasing in number, have restricted environments or are facing other threats. That represents about one-fourth of America's bird populations.

The report uses information    2    (gather) by scientists in the United States and other countries. This year, it includes birds of Hawaii and Puerto Rico.    3    the birds of mainland North America.

The National Audubon Society says the report confirms some unwelcome changes. It shows that many songbird populations    4    (decrease) by as much as fifty percent or more since 1970. For example, in the central United States, the Henslow's sparrow population has dropped by eighty percent.    5    number of Hawaiian Akikiki has dropped from 6,800 birds thirty years ago to only 1,000 birds today.

The National Audubon Society says these decreases come at a time    6    bird watching in the United States is more popular than ever. One study found that about 70,000,000 Americans took part in bird watching last year. That. is up 250 percent from the number    7    (report) twenty years ago.

Mr. Gill, an official with the National Audubon Society, says that birds are a good way    8    (test) the health of Earth's environment, He adds that the things that harm birds also harm people    9    share the same space. He says people should think about    10     decreasing bird populations are telling us about the environment we share.

8 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式填空。

Now there are 32 million deaf   children   around   the   world   and   they   often   have    1     (difficult) learning to read. Smartphone maker Huawei wants to help them out through its new app called StorySign.

    2     (power) by a Huawei Artificial Intelligence engine, the app helps deaf children to read    3    turning written text to a display of sign language. Users can also choose a book from the app’s library that is then displayed in sign language    4     (use) animated ( 栩栩如生的) characters.

The developers aim to make the app’s main character called Star popular with both boys and girls by making her an elder sister or friend, who will help them read and understand the book.   Star wears a hearing aid,     5    facial       6     (express) and hands are able to fully communicate the perfect sign language. This way, not only     7       (be) the deaf children learning to read, but also they are entertained.

“Many   deaf children struggle    8       (learn) to read, often due to lack of resources that       bridge the gap between sign language and written text. The app     9       (perfect) gives them this   tool to make it much    10     (easy) for them to read.” said Andrew Garrihy, Huawei’s CMO for Western Europe.

The app can be downloaded from app stores in 10 different languages including English, French, German and Italian.

9 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Astronomy is the oldest science     1    （know）to man. Thousands of years ago man looked at the stars and wondered about the heavens. But man was     2    （limit）by the six planets that he could see only     3     his eyes alone. The Greeks studied astronomy over 2,000 years ago. They could see the size colour, and     4    （bright）of a star. They could see its place in the sky. They watched the stars     5    （move ）as the seasons changed. But the Greeks had no tools to help themselves study the heavens. Each new tool added to the field of astronomy helped man reach out into space. Man knew a little about the moon     6     there were telescopes.

He did not know that the planet called Saturn had     7    （ring）around it. His sight was     8     limited that he could not see all the planets. In the early 1700s, people thought there were only six planets. Before the spectroscope, man did not know what kind of gases     9    （be）around the sun or other stars. Without the radio-telescope, we did not know that radio noises came from far in space. Today, astronomy is a     10    （grow）science. We have learned more in the last fifty years than in the whole history of astronomy.

10 . 语法填空(在空白出填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。)

Cultural TV programs experienced a come-back at     1     start of the Chinese New year in 2017. Since its broadcast, the program, Readers,    2     (become) a hit. Broadcast on China Central Television (CCTV) over the weekend, it is bringing fresh     3     (enthusiastic) for literature in China. Readers set out to interpret the power and values behind     4     (tradition) Chinese culture. The weekly talk show, produced and hosted by the famous TV personality Dong Qing, invites people from all walks of life to read poems, essays and books they like or wrote. Readers has brought the almost-lost habit     5     reading aloud back into the public spotlight,     6     allows the audience     7     (appreciate) the beauty of language. The participants also     8     (active) share stories from their own life,     9     (explain) reasons why particular pieces touched their hearts or shaped their lives. In the show, poems can     10     (adapt) into songs. So far this program has been considered one of the most popular shows in China.